Deaths in June 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1992.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Karl-Heinz Freiberger, 51, German Olympic field hockey player (1964, 1968).
 * Eve Gardiner, 78, English beautician and remedial make-up artist.
 * Anatoli Porkhunov, 63, Soviet footballer.
 * Yrjö Sotiola, 79, Finnish football player.
 * Delia Villegas Vorhauer, 52, American social worker.
 * Adele Wiseman, 64, Canadian author.

2

 * Gerd Boder, 58, German composer.
 * Philip Dunne, 84, American screenwriter (How Green Was My Valley, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Robe), cancer.
 * Endre Győrfi, 72, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (1948).
 * Paul Miller, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Donald Nichols, 69, United States Air Force intelligence officer.
 * Alexandru Nicolschi, 76, communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief, with the rank of Lieutenant General.
 * Sergio Paganella, 80, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936).

3

 * Ray Buker, 92, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Ettore Campogalliani, 88, Italian composer, musician and teacher.
 * Wilfried Dietrich, 58, German wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
 * William Gaines, 70, American publisher (Mad).
 * Robert Morley, 84, English actor (Marie Antoinette, The African Queen, Around the World in 80 Days), stroke.
 * Patrick Peyton, 83, Irish-American Roman Catholic priest.

4

 * Vladimir Chekalov, 69, Russian painter.
 * Melvin Dresher, 81, Polish-American mathematician.
 * Geezil Minerve, 70, Cuban-American jazz musician.
 * Siddhicharan Shrestha, 80, Nepalese poet.
 * Carl Stotz, 82, American founder of Little League Baseball.

5

 * Max Lerner, 89, Russian-born American journalist.
 * Narciso Martínez, 80, Mexican folk musician.
 * Laurence Naismith, 83, English actor (Scrooge, A Night to Remember, Jason and the Argonauts).
 * Ethel Reschke, 81, German actress.
 * Franz Reuß, 88, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.

6

 * Richard Eurich, 89, English painter.
 * Martin Goodman, 84, American publisher and founder of Marvel Comics, pneumonia.
 * Roger Hägglund, 30, Ice hockey player, traffic collision.
 * Arnie Knepper, 61, American racecar driver, cancer.
 * E. Harold Munn, 88, American politician.
 * Larry Riley, 38, American actor (Knots Landing, A Soldier's Story, Stir Crazy), AIDS-related kidney failure.
 * Manfred Stengl, 46, Austrian Olympic luger (1964) and cyclist, racing collision.

7

 * Bill France, 82, American businessman and racing driver, founder of NASCAR, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ina Halley, 65, German actress.
 * Alexander Koldunov, 68, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
 * Ivan Kramberger, 56, Slovenian writer, philanthropist, and politician, homicide.
 * Olav Rytter, 89, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, and radio personality.
 * Bob Sweeney, 73, American television director (The Andy Griffith Show, Hogan's Heroes) and actor (Marnie), cancer.

8

 * Atef Bseiso, 43, Palestinian PLO's liaison officer, homicide.
 * Farag Foda, 46, Egyptian writer and human rights activist, murdered.
 * Alfred Uhl, 83, Austrian composer.
 * Sakae Ōba, 78, Imperial Japanese Army officer during World War II.

9

 * Per Bergsland, 74, Norwegian fighter pilot, escapist from Stalag Luft III.
 * Betty Miles, 82, American actress and stuntwoman.
 * Big Miller, 69, American musician, heart attack.
 * Fernando de Quintanilha e Mendonça Dias, 93, Portuguese admiral and colonial administrator.

10

 * Al Brightman, 68, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
 * Glyn Smallwood Jones, 84, British colonial administrator, liver failure.
 * Morris Kline, 84, American mathematician.
 * William S. Mailliard, 75, American banker and politician.
 * Hachidai Nakamura, 61, Japanese composer, diabetes.
 * Nat Pierce, 66, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
 * Hans Reiser, 73, German actor.
 * Bert Sotlar, 71, Yugoslav film actor.

11

 * John Freeman Loutit, 82, Australian radiobiologist.
 * Rafael Orozco Maestre, 38, Colombian singer of vallenato music, shot.
 * Alexander Spoehr, 78, American anthropologist.
 * Jack Sullivan, 78, Canadian sports journalist.

12

 * Allahverdi Baghirov, 46, Azerbaijani officer, politician and war hero, land mine.
 * Serge Daney, 48, French movie critic, AIDS-related complications.
 * Randy Moore, 85, American baseball player.
 * Gerda Nicolson, 54, Australian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Renié, 90, American costume designer (Cleopatra, The President's Lady, The Big Fisherman), Oscar winner (1964).
 * Klemens Rudnicki, 95, Polish Army general.

13

 * Anatoly Nikolayevich Davidovich, 27, Azerbaijani sergeant and war hero, killed in action.
 * Pumpuang Duangjan, 30, Thai pop singer, lupus.
 * Edward Leslie Gray, 97, Canadian politician.
 * Remziye Hisar, 89-90, Turkish chemist.
 * Edwin C. Horrell, 89, American football player and coach.
 * Carl Nordenfalk, 84, Swedish art historian and academic.
 * Erik Paaske, 58, Danish actor and singer.
 * Shikar Shikarov, 38, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Qu Wu, 93, Chinese military officer and politician.

14

 * Carlos d'Alessio, 56, Argentine-French composer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Martin B. McKneally, 77, American politician.
 * Thomas Nipperdey, 64, German historian.
 * Mirasgar Seyidov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.

15

 * Jean Aerts, 84, Belgian road bicycle racer.
 * Amitabha Bhattacharyya, 60, Indian engineer.
 * Lev Gumilyov, 79, Soviet historian, ethnologist, and anthropologist.
 * Leo Halle, 86, Dutch football player.
 * Kinji Imanishi, 90, Japanese ecologist and anthropologist.
 * Eddie Lopat, 73, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jay MacDowell, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Chuck Menville, 52, American television writer (The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Sabrina the Teenage Witch), cancer.
 * Chingiz Mustafayev, 31, Azerbaijani journalist, killed in action.
 * Roque Olsen, 66, Argentine football player and manager.
 * Brett Whiteley, 53, Australian artist, drug overdose.

16

 * Jacob Beser, 71, United States Army Air Forces officer.
 * Siro Bianchi, 67, Italian-French cyclist.
 * W. L. Mooty, 86, American lawyer and politician.
 * Peter Legh, 4th Baron Newton, 77, British politician.

17

 * Dewey Balfa, 65, American cajun musician.
 * Frederick Exley, 63, American author (A Fan's Notes), stroke.
 * Grace Towns Hamilton, 85, American politician.
 * Jacob Levin, 88, American chess player.
 * Jim Nance, 49, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * John R. Platt, 74, American physicist and biophysicist.
 * Ishrat Hussain Usmani, 75, Pakistani atomic physicist.

18

 * Peter Allen, 48, Australian singer-songwriter, AIDS.
 * Mordecai Ardon, 95, Hungarian-Israeli painter.
 * Johnny Friedlaender, 79, German/French 20th-century artist.
 * Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, 55, Irish businessman and politician, cancer.
 * Janusz Kruk, 45, Polish singer, guitarist and composer, heart failure.
 * Ken McAuley, 71, Ice hockey player.
 * Carlos Humberto Perette, 76, Argentine Radical Civic Union politician and lawyer.
 * R. G. Samaranayake, 68, Sri Lankan politician.

19

 * Jas H. Duke, 53, Australian poet and cult figure.
 * Kathleen McKane Godfree, 96, English tennis player, Olympic champion (1920).
 * Margherita Guidacci, 71, Italian poet, stroke.
 * Stephan Waser, 72, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.

20

 * Georges Gratiant, 85, Martiniquais communist politician.
 * Charles Groves, 77, English conductor.
 * Nikolai Sidelnikov, 62, Russian composer.
 * Thomas Whitfield, 38, American musician, heart attack.

21

 * Leonid Azgaldyan, 49, Armenian physicist and military leader, killed in action.
 * Harry Eagle, 87, American physician and pathologist.
 * Joan Fuster Ortells, 69, Spanish writer.
 * Lajos Sántha, 76, Hungarian gymnast.
 * Yoshiko Uchida, 70, Japanese-American writer.
 * Li Xiannian, 82, Chinese politician, president (1983–1988).
 * Franz Wasner, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, director of the Trapp Family.

22

 * Hansjörg Eichler, 76, German botanist.
 * M. F. K. Fisher, 83, American cookbook author.
 * Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, 75, Romanian-French novelist.
 * Reg Harris, 72, British cyclist, stroke.
 * Gemini Kantha, 67, Sri Lankan actress.
 * Arthur C. Lundahl, 77, American aerial reconnaissance pioneer.
 * Ng Ming-yam, 37, Hong Kong politician and writer, leukemia.
 * Chuck Mitchell, 64, American actor (Porky's), cirrhosis.
 * Charlie Ondras, 25, American noise rock drummer, drug overdose.
 * Emanuel David Rudolph, 64, American botanist.
 * István Szívós Sr., 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach.

23

 * Eric Andolsek, 25, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
 * Margot Bernice Forde, 57, New Zealand botanist, curator, and taxonomist.
 * Franco Leccese, 67, Italian sprinter.
 * Lucile Saunders McDonald, 93, American journalist, historian, and children's author.
 * Joy Nichols, 67, Australian-British comedian, actress and singer.
 * Juris Podnieks, 41, Latvian filmmaker, drowned.
 * John Spencer-Churchill, 83, English artist.
 * Viktor Yanushevsky, 32, Soviet and Belarusian football player, heart attack.

24

 * Jorge Salas Chávez, 77, Argentinian sailor.
 * Len Darling, 82, Australian cricketer.
 * Victor Lemberechts, 68, Belgian footballer.
 * Maharajapuram Santhanam, 64, Indian singer, traffic collision.
 * Jo Spence, 58, British photographer, writer, and photo therapist, breast cancer.
 * Rudolf Svedberg, 81, Swedish welterweight Greco-Roman wrestler.

25

 * Jerome Brown, 27, American football player, traffic collision.
 * Larry Cahan, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Sayavush Hasanov, 28, Azerbaijan soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Herbert J. McGlinchey, 87, American politician.
 * James Stirling, 66, British architect, complications from surgery.

26

 * John Jacob Astor VI, 79, American shipping magnate and socialite.
 * Gyula Polgár, 80, Hungarian football player.
 * Buddy Rogers, 71, American professional wrestler, stroke.
 * Phil Rubenstein, 51, American actor (Tango & Cash, RoboCop 2, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), heart failure.
 * Harald Sverdrup, 69, Norwegian poet and children's writer.

27

 * Sandy Amorós, 62, Cuban-American baseball player, pneumonia.
 * Allan Jones, 84, American actor and singer, lung cancer.
 * Martin F. Rockmore, 74, American marine general.
 * Stefanie Sargent, 24, American musician (7 Year Bitch), accidental asphyxiation.
 * Charles Tyler, 50, American jazz musician, heart failure.
 * Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson, 91, Scottish child suffragette and piper.
 * Georg Årlin, 75, Swedish actor.

28

 * Roger Bisseron, 86, French racing cyclist.
 * Peter Hirt, 82, Swiss racing driver.
 * Valerian Kobakhia, 63, Soviet-Abkhaz apparatchik.
 * Joan Marshall, 61, American actress (Bold Venture, Shampoo, Star Trek).
 * John Piper, 88, English artist.
 * Howard Roberts, 62, American jazz guitarist and session musician.
 * Qian Sanqiang, 78, Chinese nuclear physicist.
 * Mikhail Tal, 55, Latvian chess player, esophageal hemorrhage.

29

 * Pierre Billotte, 86, French soldier and war hero during World War II.
 * Mohamed Boudiaf, 73, Algerian politician, chairman of the High Council of State (since 1992), assassinated.
 * May Farquharson, 98, Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer.
 * Elie Kedourie, 66, British historian.
 * Kamil Nəsibov, 45, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Mario Rossi, 90, Italian conductor.
 * Daniel Strickler, 95, United States Army general and politician.

30

 * Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, 87, British aristocrat and politician.
 * André Hébuterne, 97, French painter.
 * Käthe Itter, 85, German actress.
 * Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, 88, British peer and British Army officer.
 * Jan van Heteren, 75, Dutch water polo player and Olympian.